Scholarship

The Law School and the Living Constitution

A. E. Dick Howard

Date

1987-8

Citation

A. E. Dick Howard, The Law School and the Living Constitution, Virginia Law School Report 7–8 (1987).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

A. E. Dick Howard

Center for International & Comparative Law

Constitutional Law and Legal History

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